And peace. When morning came, the people set aside a place ⦗1⦘ for prayer, and what had occurred—the erupting fire and the burning of the Mosque—was counted among the divine signs. It was as though it were ⦗2⦘ a warning of the events that would follow in the coming year, as we shall relate. Such are the words of Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Abū Shāma ⦗3⦘.

Abū Shāma also versified ⦗4⦘ what took place in that year and thereafter; he said:
[Metre: al-khafīf]
After six hundred and fifty-four ⦗5⦘ there came in the year—
the fire in the land of the Hijaz, and with it the burning of the Mosque, together with the drowning of Dār al-Salām (Baghdad) ⦗6⦘.
Then the Tatars ⦗7⦘ seized Baghdad at the very start of the next year ⦗8⦘;
no helper ⦗9⦘ came to its people, while unbelief had many allies against them—alas for Islam!
The rule of the Caliphate there came to an end; the Mustaʿṣim was left without protection.
So compassion upon the Hijaz and upon Egypt, and peace upon the lands of al-Shām.
Lord, grant safety, safeguard, and health to what remains of the cities, O Possessor of Majesty and Honor ⦗10⦘.

In this same year the [construction] of the inner Nāsirī madrasa ⦗11⦘, situated inside Bāb al-Farādis, was completed. Its founder, al-Malik al-Nāṣir Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf, son of al-Malik al-ʿAzīz Muḥammad, son of al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Ghiyāth al-Dīn Ghāzī, son of al-Nāṣir Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb ibn Shādhī, the conqueror of Jerusalem, attended the inaugural lesson. The town qadi, Ibn Saniyy ⦗12⦘ al-Dawla, delivered the lesson in the presence of the amirs, the dignitaries, the scholars, and the great majority of the decision-makers of Damascus.

In that same year an order was issued to build the Nāsirī ribāṭ on the slope of Mount Qāsiyūn.